What the heck is even happening?

Ace, She/Her, Autistic, generally anxious.

[desinteresse]

Men who talk shit about gold diggers underestimate the grit it takes to put up with an insufferable man, even when money is involved. We should be thanking them for their service like they are veterans.

[little-trash-ghost]

Can't leave this in the tags..

[cosmicretreat]

[daysleftofsecondterm]

this post makes me feel patriotic

[yurucamp]

interstate angel

[myrandomstuffpage]

[seymour-butz-stuff]

This is why you see so many many many "we can't vote our way out of this" posts online. They know that sentiment will depress turnout. Turnout that will get the people paying them kicked out of power.

Vote

[undead-knick-knack]

It seems with every day

A Tachonis slips away

[thisloveforyourmom]

Discord has an SDRA daemon au going btw. Huge credit to @anonym-potato. Pyke has a harris's hawk named Alhamara, Ophelia has a cheetah named Aeneas, Ko has a spotted hyena named Dianmu, Pixel has a hooded pitohui named Malachite, Rett has an alleghany mound ant named Tesca, and Ziggy has a raccoon called Zelda (like him, she has another name and prefers Zelda instead). Gallus is a golden eagle, Belvedere is an oxpecker, Kalakus is a komodo dragon

[anonym-potato]

(credit is also due to @funnygirlthatbelle for helping me brainstorm)

[pliomu]

[mapsontheweb]

US rivers drawn in proportion to how much water they carry

[faejayy]

Yall????? omfg???? If you're a historical artist you NEED to look at what I just found because A BUNCH OF ORIGINAL SOURCES ON CLOTHING RANGING FROM MEDIEVAL TIMES TO THE 20TH CENTURY??? WITH CLEAR PHOTOS AND VERBAL EXPLANATIONS??? AND THEY'RE SORTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER WITHIN THE CENTURIES TOO????????

https://bloshka.info/

there's also this which also seems good but has less original sources and I haven't looked through as much :)

https://world4.eu/

[hapalopus]

I reeeeaaalllyy don't like how widespread gender realism is in supposedly feminist circles on this website. You are one step away from becoming a radfem.

[hapalopus]

"Woman" is a socially constructed category and "women" have nothing intrinsic in common, other than viewing themselves as whatever "woman" is defined as in their society, or being judged by the standards of whatever "woman" is defined as in their society. Gender is as "real" of a category as race or neurotype, which is to say, it's not objectively real at all. It's an artificial category created on the basis of perceived shared traits among certain people. The people came first, they were grouped into their artificial category later. There are no intrinsic differences between men or women or nonbinary or multigender people.

[hapalopus]

Do you actually believe gender is a social construct or are you just mindlessly repeating the phrase because it sounds cool

[dykepuffs]

Watching the queer way of interacting with gender go from "Gender is a social construct that can be fun to play with but at heart is a dangerous toy because it has been used for generations to oppress and divide people." To "Everyone has a perfect crystal of true gender which you must deeply introspect to discover, and you can be wrong about its nature." Has been a disaster.

[feel-weeb-inc]

As a trans person this view I feel is deeply harmful and wrong. I do believe gender is a real and not socially constructed concept. I feel no one “gave” me my gender and people telling me my gender is a construct is insulting to who I am and how hard I worked to discover myself. Not everyone has the same experience as I do but to say as an objective that gender is made up is extremely presumptuous and rude. In my personal spiritual beliefs I feel every person’s soul comes with its own relationship to gender that isn’t given by society. Do not try to tell me my religion and my relationship with myself are made up. That’s not your place. Believe your beliefs and let others believe theirs. It harms no one.

[shamebats]

Gender is undeniably a social construct. Your spiritual beliefs are also a social construct. Both was created and shaped by society and people's understanding of it changes constantly. A medieval Catholic's religious beliefs and experience of church were completely different from a modern Catholic's.

Children aren't born having a full understanding of gender or religion — they have to be indoctrinated into it. It might be inherent to people to seek out some kind of gender expression or spiritual belief, but the way we do it is not innate. We aren't born knowing that skirts are for girls and big trucks are for boys.

Money is also a social construct. That doesn't mean it isn't real or that it doesn't matter. It's just that people made it up and assigned meaning to it. We have no choice but to participate in it, so money is still important and meaningful to pretty much everyone in society because it defines our experiences of existing as humans right now. Still a social construct though, and has very recently changed from being exclusively bills & metal coins in your wallet/under your mattress to numbers in an app. Children have to learn how to interact with money and most people are pretty bad at it and it cases a lot of problems. The same could be said for gender.

[kestrelking-blog]

The example that got my (really quite Catholic) mother to understand social constructs as both important and made up was days of the week.

There is no law of nature that proves it is Wednesday. Days are real - the Earth rotates, the sun rises and sets, that’s physics. Deciding to build our entire westernised lives around 1/4 of the moon’s orbit is made up. There is no law of physics that links this moment in the lunar procession to ‘Wednesday’.

And yet it really is Wednesday. Mum, you need to go to work and later your choir who practice on Wednesdays will be pissed if you skip practice because ‘Wednesday is a social construct’.

It’s also completely valid to have a favourite day of the week - Sunday for my mum since she goes to church, doesn’t work and avoids domestic chores on Sunday. And all those feelings about Sundays are completely valid in the absence of any law of nature which proves ‘it’s Sunday’.

And all those feelings about your gender…

[peachsnout-deactivated20190614]

Grandma poison water SNAPPED

[renat11soldman3]

Creation of the Night.

[hiephs]

I've been having the strangest dreams recently...

This design is amazing

so glad ive been practicing drawing wings 🖋️🖋️

[letterful]

[zaprowsdower27]

amazing how two thousand years have gone by and we still ultimately cannot get past the Ancient Roman view of sex where penetrating was respectable and being penetrated was disgraceful

[seren-starlight]

There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent

[traycakes]

I'm fine with "click here to confirm you're an adult" because it keeps people from finding it by accident.

I do not give a shit if the people checking the box are actually adults, and oppose any effort to confirm that they are.

[drtanner]

"But minors might lie and click to confirm they're adults when they're not!!! :((((" Yeah, and they might use a parent or adult sibling's ID or credit card (or Norman Reedus' face!) to bypass age verification, too.

There is not a single type of age verification that will meaningfully stop underage people from accessing anything, which is completely fine from the perspective of the governments trying to force this shit on us because they aren't interested in protecting children. This is about tying your meatspace identity to your online activities and very little else.

If this were about protecting children, "Are you 18+? Y/N" would be completely sufficient. It's not the fault of a given website if someone lies about their age in order to access it, so by asking the visitor to confirm their age, they're doing enough to cover their own asses. After that, if a kid sees something that might wind up upsetting them, it's on their parents or guardians for not supervising them.

[yourrottingwife]

SIMPLE GUIDE:

Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life. EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc

Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe. EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc

NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person. *AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.

(Modified) from my comment left on this post.

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled